Necessitous Man and Conflict Resolution: More Basic Questions About Basic Human Needs Theory

Abstract

This chapter adopts a fundamentally practical approach to the conception of Basic Human Needs and its attendant theorizing — an approach which arises from my own major interest in the nature of social (mainly international) conflict and its solution. It seeks to throw some light on whether the Basic Human Needs approach can form the core of a general theory of conflict resolution and what clarifications of that approach might be necessary before any systematic development of such a theory can take place.